ODISEO CREATIVO: UN CAPíTULO DE LA HISTORIA REMOTA DE LA CREATIVIDAD

in ancient times, greeks and trojans encountered each other in a fight of many years. the former besieged the city of troy and destroyed it by blood and fire. most of the details were lost, but our culture has kept important fragments of them thanks to the oral compositions and public singing of wandering poets gifted with a powerful memory known as aedos, or rhapsodes, which then became the basis for texts that we can still read today. from the center of this history emerges the figure of the first creative thinker that we can remember this is odysseus, or rather ulysses, in its latin version, whose sinuous life is extraordinarily well documented considering the distance separating us from it. despite habitual practices and consecrated schemas of his time, he consistently introduced new ways to deal with dangers and solve problems. in each of his actions, he is represented as an example of prudence, tenacity, and ability to respond; yet he never submitted the permanent core of his existence and sense of living to short-lived gains. no poet had spoken of creativeness; yet we find the word metis, certainly its remotest antecedent.